Mario Monti

Mario Monti
Monti in 2012
Prime Minister of Italy
In office
16 November 2011 – 28 April 2013
PresidentGiorgio Napolitano
Preceded bySilvio Berlusconi
Succeeded byEnrico Letta
Minister of Economy and Finance
In office
16 November 2011 – 11 July 2012
Prime MinisterHimself
Preceded byGiulio Tremonti
Succeeded byVittorio Grilli
European Commissioner for Competition
In office
15 September 1999 – 30 October 2004
PresidentRomano Prodi
Preceded byKarel Van Miert
Succeeded byNeelie Kroes
European Commissioner for Internal Market, Services, Customs and Taxation
In office
18 January 1995 – 15 September 1999
PresidentJacques Santer
Preceded byRaniero Vanni d'Archirafi
Succeeded byFrits Bolkestein
President of Bocconi University
In office
6 September 1994 – 1 November 2022
Preceded byGiovanni Spadolini
Succeeded byAndrea Sironi
Member of the Senate of the Republic
Life tenure
9 November 2011
Appointed byGiorgio Napolitano
Personal details
Born (1943-03-19) 19 March 1943 (age 81)
Varese, Lombardy, Kingdom of Italy
Political partyIndependent (1995–2013; since 2015)
Civic Choice (2013–2015)
Spouse
Elsa Antonioli
(m. 1970)
Children2
Alma materBocconi University
Yale University
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Mario Monti OMRI (born 19 March 1943) is an Italian politician, economist and academic who served as the Prime Minister of Italy from 2011 to 2013, leading a technocratic government in the wake of the Italian debt crisis.

Monti served as a European Commissioner from 1995 to 2004, with responsibility for the Internal Market, Services, Customs and Taxation from 1995 to 1999 and for Competition from 1999 to 2004. Monti has also been rector and president of Bocconi University in Milan for many years.

On 12 November 2011, in the midst of the European sovereign debt crisis, Monti was invited by President Giorgio Napolitano to form a new technocratic government following the resignation of Silvio Berlusconi. Monti was sworn in as prime minister on 16 November 2011, just a week after having been appointed a Lifetime Senator by President Napolitano, and initially became Minister of Economy and Finances as well, giving that portfolio up the following July.

From 16 May 2013 to 17 October 2013, Monti was the president of Civic Choice, a centrist[1] political party in Italy.

  1. ^ Wolfram Nordsieck. "Parties and Elections in Europe". parties-and-elections.eu.

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